Karnataka High Court sets aside a Family Court order directing a DNA test in a child maintenance case, holding that admission of a physical relationship and the child’s welfare do not, by themselves, establish the necessity for such a test.
Read Full ArticlePunjab and Haryana High Court quashes an NDPS case after charge was framed, holding that inadmissible police disclosure statements cannot sustain prosecution in the absence of legally admissible evidence.
Supreme Court restores a former Telephone Department cashier’s acquittal under Section 409 IPC, holding that the prosecution failed to prove entrustment or dishonest intention and could not shift the burden of proof to the accused.
Allahabad High Court holds that uncertified Instagram chats cannot establish that a wife is “living in adultery” to deny maintenance, especially without corroborative evidence.
The Supreme Court urged the Centre and Law Commission to frame a law regulating private detective agencies while hearing a maintenance dispute involving allegations of adultery.
The Supreme Court held that an insurer cannot be held liable where the offending driver lacked a valid driving licence, applying the 'pay and recover' principle in a motor accident compensation case.
Telangana High Court held that owners of personal devices can furnish a Section 65B(4) self-certificate for emails and WhatsApp chats without requiring certification from an official authority.
Telangana High Court ruled that secretly recording a spouse's calls violates the right to privacy under Article 21 and is inadmissible in matrimonial disputes.
SC sets aside 3 concurrent findings, holds Oraon custom doesn't let an uncle-in-law adopt his niece's husband as ghardamad; nearest male agnate succeeds absent valid adoption.
Supreme Court clarifies when DNA tests can be ordered in paternity disputes, balancing privacy rights against the need to determine parentage.
Supreme Court says inmates must explain deaths occurring inside homes, upholds conviction of man for murdering wife over dowry demands.
Supreme Court holds that excluding a wife and children from a Will in favour of a sibling is not by itself a suspicious circumstance.
Supreme Court rules that threatening to upload a woman’s bath video amounts to imputing unchastity and violates dignity and sexual autonomy.
Supreme Court grants bail under UAPA, reaffirms K.A. Najeeb, and raises concerns over the Gulfisha Fatima judgment.
Supreme Court rules no maintenance if DNA proves non-paternity; Section 112 presumption yields to scientific evidence when findings attain finality.
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